You sewed your arms into the edges of my mattress. A year later the thread fell apart. You'd still wrap yourself in my sheets & lie awake counting imperfections in my ceiling tiles. But you were not a part of this place anymore and less and less you came around. I missed you. You wrote your name on every line and in every margin of my life but over time those letters had to efface. You were not a part of this place anymore and less and less you'd take ink to those old pages. I missed you. You synced your voice into my cellphone but over time it was consumed by static. You were not a part of this place anymore and less and less you'd call to say goodnight. I missed you.
But my heart is a melting ***
And I drained you out

He etched himself into my skin
He stretched his sleeves over my arms
He melted his knees into my thighs
He poured blue hues from his eyes into
the brown of mine
He left his lips on my teeth
He grew his limbs like branches of a tree all
over my bed frame
My mornings are coffee and cologne
And my evenings, insence and ****
I don't even know how to keep missing you
I'm sorry